too many episodes recording

too many episodes recording

New uverse user (former comcast). Working great so far. We have shows set to record for the kids. I want to keep only one episode of each series, but the DVR is recording more (4 episodes of each show at the moment). I don't want to waste space on these shows. On comcast I could set how many episodes of each series recording, but I don't see an option with uverse. Am I missing it? How many episodes will it keep?

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Re: too many episodes recording

No, the 4 were recorded one per day. We've got 7 Mickey's, 7 OSO's, 7 HandyManny's, now.... What will we have after a few weeks???? I'd like to just have the newest one of each show so any given day, they can watch a new show. They don't watch all of these by any means.

Re: too many episodes recording

kwerner .. how is the series recording set up? Do you have it "any day, any time" "first run and reruns" ? If you wouldn't mind posting how each show is set up, your peers might be able to help. Also, what channel / network and time slot (also what city)... AT&T employees "crusie" these blogs and I have seen several series recording issues "mysteriously" solve. It can't hurt.

Re: too many episodes recording

I agree with Achmed. Try changing the recording setting to "First run only" instead of "First run and rerun".....this should solve it since I don't think they show more than one first run show per day.

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I guess I just got used to how Comcast worked... it fit the bill for what I wanted to do. I wanted a variety of shows, but just the latest one of each stored on the disk. Doing first run only wouldn't work well because most of these shows are reruns every day (we wouldn't get any recordings for a month or two, then a few new ones, then none again for a while).

I'll guess I'll just let the DVR fill up.... it's kind of a pain to delete a bunch of old episodes though I just found. Each has to be deleted individually. :-(

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Re: too many episodes recording

I think the best overall dvr was the Dish Network one. Although you couldn't record as many shows at once, it still has better features than Uverse and even better than Tivo. You wouldn't have that problem with Dish.